This modifier is the opposite of the recently added Mesh to Volume modifier.
It converts the "surface" of a volume into a mesh. The "surface" is defined
by a threshold value. All voxels with a density higher than the threshold
are considered to be inside the volume, while all others will be outside.
By default, the resolution of the generated mesh depends on the voxel
size of the volume grid. The resolution can be customized. It should be
noted that a lower resolution might not make this modifier faster. This
is because we have to downsample the openvdb grid, which isn't a cheap
operation.
Converting a mesh to a volume and then back to a mesh is possible,
but it does require two separate mesh objects for now.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9141
The strength has a high impact on performance. With the previous
step and default one could easily and accidentally make Blender unusably
slow, because of a too high displacement strength.
The 0.1 limit was too large. The issue with making it smaller is that
one can easily crash blender by making it to small. To counteract this,
the step has been reduced as well.
A voxel size/amount of 0 disables the modifier.
This modifier uses a 3D texture to displace a volume.
For now, this can only use the previously existing texture system,
because we do not have a better alternative yet. Still, the results
can be quite good and interesting. See D9075 for some examples.
Reviewers: brecht, simonthommes
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9075
As noted in T80164, there are quite a few area of Blender where the
"Reset to Default Value" operator in button context menus doesn't work.
Modifiers are one of them, because the DNA defaults system was never
set up for them.
Additionally, this should make modifier versioning easier. Whenever a
new field is added it should be automatically initialized to the
default value.
I had to make some ordering changes in the following modifiers to work
around an error with `-Wsign-conversion` in the macros:
- Solidify Modifier
- Corrective Smooth Modifier
- Screw Modifier
Some modifiers are special cases and are skipped in this commit:
- Data Transfer Modifier
- Cloth Modifier
- Fluid Modifier
- Softbody Modifier
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8747
This adds the option to either smooth the entire boundary, or to keep
corners sharp, for the Subdivision Surface and Multiresolution modifiers.
This mainly helps with compatibility with other software. The default
behavior remains to smooth the entire boundary.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8485
This makes subdivision surfaces compatible with the old subdivision
surface modifier and other applications that do not use the limit surface.
This option is available on the Subdivision Surface modifier.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8413
Add an option to disable Alembic vertex interpolation.
Bump subversion from 5 to 6.
Alembic stores mesh samples at specific time keys; when a frame in
Blender maps to a timecode between two samples, Blender will interpolate
the mesh vertex positions. This interpolation only happens when the mesh
has a constant topology, but sometimes this was not detected properly
when the vertices change order, but the number of mesh elements remains
the same. This would result in a mesh with jumbled up vertices (T71981).
With this patch, users have the ability to disable vertex interpolation.
An alternative would be to have better detection of topology changes,
but that that'll cause a considerable slowdown.
Maniphest Tasks: T71981
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9041
This modifier can only be added to Volume objects. It takes a mesh
as input and generates a "density" grid near the surface or in
the enclosed volume.
Ref T73201.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9032
This reduces the number of places that have to be modified
when a new modifier is added.
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9000
This commit replaces the BVH Tree currently used by the Weld Modifier
with the KD Tree used by `Merge > By Distance`.
This changes the result of the Weld Modifier to more closely match
`Merge > By Distance`.
There is also a big performance advantage.
Here is an overview (models in D8995):
| 2.90 (Duplicate Limit = 0) | 2.90 (Duplicate Limit = 1) | master (BVH) (Duplicate Limit = 1) | patch (KD) |
| 1.69s| 0.17s | 0.12s | 0.029s |
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8995
Also added code so that exact solver does the whole collection at once.
This patch allows users to use a collection (as an alternative to Object)
for the boolean modifier operand, and therefore get rid of a long modifier stack.
With this option, self-intersections in either or both operands
will be handled properly (if both sides are piecewise winding
number constant, and maybe some other cases too).
In the Boolean tool, this flag was there already but the code
forced a unary operation in that case; this commit corrects it
to make a binary operation. This flag makes the code slower, which
is why it is an option and not an always-on thing.
This is for design task T67744, Boolean Redesign.
It adds a choice of solver to the Boolean modifier and the
Intersect (Boolean) and Intersect (Knife) tools.
The 'Fast' choice is the current Bmesh boolean.
The new 'Exact' choice is a more advanced algorithm that supports
overlapping geometry and uses more robust calculations, but is
slower than the Fast choice.
The default with this commit is set to 'Exact'. We can decide before
the 2.91 release whether or not this is the right choice, but this
choice now will get us more testing and feedback on the new code.
For 2.90 release this should not be exposed in the RNA API.
In master this needs to be ON by default, that's all.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8589
This adds an option to the Multires modifier to sculpt directly on the
base mesh while previewing the displacement of a higher subdivisions
level. What this does it considering Multires as a regular modifier
without exposing the grid displacement to sculpt mode.
This allows to see the propagation happening in real time, which enables
to use complex tools like Cloth or Pose in much higher resolutions and
without surface noise and artifacts.
Reviewed By: sergey, Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8555
Small tweaks to make labels and texts more correct, consistent and
polished.
Reviewed by: Aaron Carlisle, Julian Eisel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8346
Following work done in 2.83, the resolution control is now a real
level-of-detail parameter. It is now useful to be able to set the
resolution for display independently from render. This is true for
both mesh generation and mesh deformation modes.
For compatibility with old scenes, resolution is retained and is the
render resolution. Old modifiers loaded have the value of resolution
also applied to viewport resolution. This allows newer modifiers to
be used in older versions without trouble
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8336
This patch adds the ability to render motion blur from Alembic caches.
The motion blur data is derived from a velocity attribute whose name has
to be defined by the user through the MeshSequenceCache modifier, with a
default value of ".velocities", which is the standard name in Alembic
for the velocity property, although other software may ignore it and
write velocity with their own naming convention (e.g. "v" in Houdini).
Furthermore, a property was added to define how the velocity vectors
are interpreted with regard to time : frame or second. "Frame"
means that the velocity is already scaled by the time step and we do not
need to modify it for it to look proper. "Second" means that the unit
the velocity was measured in is in seconds and so has to be scaled by
some time step computed here as being the time between two frames (1 /
FPS, which would be typical for a simulation). This appears to be
common, and is the default behavior.
Another property was added to control the scale of the velocity to
further modify the look of the motion blur.
Reviewed By: brecht, sybren
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2388
The abbreviation 'init' is brief, unambiguous and already used
in thousands of places, also initialize is often accidentally
written with British spelling.
This matches the change that was done to the bevel modifier so that the
interface for the modifier, the active tool, and the operator are consistent.
This commit extends the refactor to the bmesh implementation too, so
that the parameters in the implementation don't stray too far from what
is exposed.
Tests are adjusted and still pass.
Internally the "show_expanded" property stores the expansion for every
subpanel, but for RNA we should only check the first bit of the flag that
corresponds to the main panel.
Every Particle Simulation node has a name (or a path when it is in a node group).
This name has to be used in the Simulation modifier on a point cloud to see
the particles.
Caching has been disabled for now, because it was holding back development
a bit. To reset the simulation, go back to frame 1.
Currently, there is no way to influence the simulation. There are just some
randomly moving points. Changing that is the next step.
The ocean modifier has two properties that use a [0, 10] hard min and
hard max. The values act as factors though, so it makes more sense to
use sliders and a 0 to 1 range.
This commit also bumps the file subversion to avoid repeatedly applying
the change to the properties' range.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8186
Changed variable names from mmd, mds, mfs, and mes to fmd, fds, ffs, and fes. The author of this commits lights a candle for all the merge conflicts this will cause.
The eigenvectors in the ocean modifier (plus and minus) can be useful,
but are not exposed. Assuming the particle system was capable, the
eigenvectors could be used to drive spray emission velocities.
This exposes the controls to allow a map to be generated from these
eigenvectors. Currently, the values are mapped into a 0-255 range
similar to foam.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7182
These changes are smaller, made based on feedback and a pass on all
the layouts for clarity and consistency. The Multires modifier UI will
be addressed in a separate patch. Here is an overview of the changes:
Renaming Options:
- Build: "Start" -> "Start Frame"
- Curve: "From Radius" -> "Size from Radius"
- Screw: "Calc Order" -> "Calculate Order"
- Displace, Warp, Wave: "Texture Coordinates Object" -> "Object"
Move Mode Toggle to Top & Expand:
- Bevel, Boolean, Normal Edit, Subdivision
Use Columns for Tighter Spacing:
- Displace, Explode, Ocean, Particle Instance, Remesh, Shrinkwrap,
Solidify, Warp, Weighted Normal, Wave
Misc:
- Bevel: Set inactive properties for vertex bevel
- Mesh Sequence Cache: Remove box for cache file
- Skin: Don't align "Mark Loose" and "Clear Loose"
- Array: Expand relative offset subpanel by default
- Array: Move start cap, end cap to a new subpanel
- Bevel: Move width type above width
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8115
This patch fixes T77878 in the same way that T72747 was fixed.
A hard minimum for the voxel size was added to avoid an arithmetics error.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8027
This replaces the cmake options `WITH_NEW_OBJECT_TYPES` and
`WITH_NEW_SIMULATION_TYPE` with two experimental userpref settings:
* `use_new_particle_system`: Enables the point cloud type and the simulation editor.
* `use_new_hair_type`: Only displays the add-operator in the add menu for now.
Note, in the current state you can't do anything productive with the new particle
system or the new hair type. Features will be added step by step in the upcoming
weeks and months.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8096
This will allow the easier addition of a constant radius mode in the
future and some changes in the UI to mirror the recent similar change
from "Only Vertices" to the "Affect" enum.
This mode is like Percent, but measures absolute distance along
adjacent edges instead of a percentage.
So, for example, if you use this mode with 2 segments and profile=1,
you will see the length that the bevel moves along unbeveled edges
between beveled ones will match the value specified.
Many users seem to expect this behavior, even though it means the
bevel width is uneven, so this option is for them.
This will fix situations where the modifier epansion was set elsewhere
besides the UI, like from the python console, solving the drawing part
of T77502.
Also adds update tags to the show_expanded property, which means
the properties window redraws when the property changes.
The current particle state is stored in a `CustomData` instance and
the cache is stored in `PointCache`.
The current state exists on the copy-on-write copies of the simulation,
while the cache only exists in the original data block.
This patch implements a temporary trivial particle simulation that does not
use the node system yet. It is used for testing and will be replaced soon.
`PointCache` still has some limitations that need to be overcome using
separate refactorings. For example, we need to be able to store the number
of particles in the point cache. Also we need to change which attributes
are stored for a particle system more dynamically than is currently possible afaik.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7836
